Letters and words take the form of the images they describe in this zany book, guiding the reader through a fluid visual space where the words become puzzles. Written by Anushka Ravishankar, and illustrated by Rathna Ramanathan, I Want to Be brings together joyful nonsense verse and brilliant typography to play with meaning, reflecting a child’s delight in the overturning of logic.
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Read a blog post by Gita Wolf — Typography as Illustration? Nonsense! — to learn more about how this book first came to be, and why 25 years later, we believed it was time for a second chance.
